To sign cute in ASL, hold your index and middle fingers together and touch the fingertips to your chin. Brush them down the chin as the fingers bend into the palm, then repeat once. Keep the movement small and let your face soften, as if you are looking at something sweet.
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How to sign it
Handshape: the index and middle fingers extended together.
Location: the chin.
Movement: brush the fingertips down the chin as the fingers bend closed, twice.
Palm orientation: the palm faces you.
Facial expression: a soft, warm face.
Tip to remember it
Lifeprint notes that a double movement with more facial expression shows something adorable, like a baby or a kitten, while a single movement fits concepts like attractive.
Use it in a sentence
DOG CUTE.
The dog is cute.
This video shows the double movement. Lifeprint notes that cute uses the same handshape, location and movement as one version of sugar; the facial expression tells them apart.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/c/cute.htm.
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